Article Summary by Diaa Ahmed Mohamed Ahmedien Interactive new-media artworks have been always known as a powerful means of science outreach not only because they visually communicate the research outputs to the laypeople but also due to their operational structures that enable non-scientists to be integrated into the processes of science-making. I have discussed several […]
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Podcast with Clare Barker Today’s podcast features Clare Barker, guest editor of our June Special Issue for 2021: Global Genetic Fictions. Barker and the other authors of the issue ask questions about and engage with the Human Genome Diversity Project, discussion aspects of biocolonialism. For instance, what does it mean for genetic researchers based in […]
Traditional Proverbs Help Us Understand Hunger and Malnutrition in Malawi
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To Better Understand Vaccine Hesitancy, Take the Long View
Blog by Allison Coffelt I’m sitting by my aunt, who drove two hours after work to see me while I’m in town. She comes straight from the office, and Saturday she’ll get up early to bale hay. At family dinner I ask, assuming yes: she’s vaccinated? Her laugh drops. “I decided not to.” The table […]
Finding Hope through Understanding
Film Review by Khalid Ali, Film and Media Correspondent Spoiler alert: this review contains significant plot details. ‘Souad’ (Ayten Amin, Egypt, 2020) showing at UK cinemas from 27th August 2021, https://www2.bfi.org.uk/whats-on/bfi-film-releases/souad. Souad (Bassant Ahmed) is a 19-year-old girl who lives with her younger sister Rabab (Basmala El Ghaiesh), and their parents in Zagazig, a city […]
Medicine’s Disability Blind Spot: Vaccine Roll-out, Privilege, and Access
Podcast with Alice Wong and Alyssa Burgart Join EIC Brandy Schillace in conversation with Alice Wong, a disabled activist based in San Francisco and the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, and Alyssa Burgart, an anesthesiologist and ethicist at Stanford University. Disabled lives have long been overlooked, as the very systems and designs of medicine cater […]
Encountering Pain: Hearing, Seeing, Speaking
Book Review by Jennifer Bracken Scott Edited by Deborah Padfield and Joanna M. Zakrzewska ISBN: 9781787352636 UCL Press, 2021 Full text of book is available online at https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10120621/1/Encountering-Pain.pdf Pain is an important indicator that something is wrong in the body. But pain is also invisible and immeasurable to anyone besides the patient; while an […]
Sanatorium
Book Review by Laura Grace Simpkins Abi Palmer. Penned in the Margins, 2020. 9781908058713 Teresa of Avila, the Saint Teresa immortalised by Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s electrifying marble sculpture, was a sixteenth-century Spanish nun and mystic. She became a local celebrity for her raptures, which, according to those who witnessed her ecstatic spiritual experiences, regularly involved […]
June 2021 Special Issue: Global Genetic Fictions
Global genetic fictions [read the article summary] by Clare Barker ‘More than biological’: Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves as Indigenous countergenetic fiction‘Between-time stories’: waiting, war and the temporalities of care by Shital Pravinchandra Environmental racialisation and poetics of influence in the postgenomic era: fire, soil, spirit [read the article summary] by Lara Choksey Reading heredity […]
March 2021 Issue
Can Death Cafés resuscitate morale in hospitals? [read the article summary] by Rachel Hammer, Nithya Ravindran, Nathan Nielsen ‘This place is not for children like her’: disability, ambiguous belonging and the claiming of disadvantage in postapartheid South Africa [read the article summary] by Michelle Botha and Brian Watermeyer Public health crises in popular media: how […]